May 31, 2023Ravi LakshmananServer Security/Cryptocurrency Financially motivated attackers are actively scouring the internet for unprotected Apache NiFi instances to covertly install cryptocurrency miners and facilitate lateral movement. This finding comes from the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC), which detected a…
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) was hit with a US$3 million ransom demand following a lengthy distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against its online services. As Cybernews reports, an anonymous Sudanese hacktivist group published a funding request on its Telegram channel…
The software company behind popular blogging platform WordPress automatically updated over 5 million installed Jetpack plugins after a critical vulnerability was discovered in the plugin. Automattic, which also counts Jetpack as one of its subsidiaries, launched an update yesterday to…
May 31, 2023Ravi LakshmananFirmware security/vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have discovered “backdoor-like behavior” in Gigabyte systems. This allows the device’s UEFI firmware to drop Windows executables and retrieve updates in an insecure format. Firmware security company Eclypsium announced that it first detected…
Former Metropolitan Museum of Art police officer and Channel 4’s Hunted star Danny Brook will be presenting at InfoSecurity Europe, the most influential information security event in Excel London, June 20-22, 2023. selected as the female keynote speaker for this…
May 31, 2023Ravi LakshmananAdvanced Persistent Threat threat actor known as dark pink It has been linked to five new attacks between February 2022 and April 2023 targeting various entities in Belgium, Brunei, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. This includes educational institutions,…
BBC news The Venezuelan government is reportedly paying citizens to tweet in support of them to drown out the noise of critics. The Venezuelan Ministry of Communications tweets a “hashtag of the day” every day, not just for accounts of…
The Pentagon’s strategy to actively thwart malicious activity has been affected by events unfolding in Ukraine, according to classified documents sent to Congress. of the US Department of Defense 2023 DoD Cyber Strategy is not readily available, but the factsheet…
May 31, 2023Ravi LakshmananCyber Threat/Malware threat actors behind RAT romantic comedy has been intruding on targets since at least July 2022 with a network of fake websites promoting illegal versions of popular software. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro tracks this cluster…
This may come as a shock to many, but scammers have once again managed to steal large sums of money from cryptocurrency investors. At the center of the scam is the Twitter account of Steve Aoki, an American DJ and…
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